60TB Drives now possible.

[rush_tech]

New Seagate Technology Makes 60TB Hard Drives A Reality | Geeky Gadgets

[Dos_Box]

Do not, under any circumstances, tell your staff this! They'll think you already have them

[mac_shinobi]

You can now download the internet

 

/sarcasm

[localzuk]

Density is great... What about speed?

[sonofsanta]

I fear it's still a while off actual production... but still, I'm all for more lasers in my computers

[jamesfed]

Density is great... What about speed?

 

We are always going to be limited to ~15k given the speed of sound and the problems that breaking the speed of sound inside a hard drive.

 

HDD maybe the way for pure capacity but speed is going to have to be in SSD/other tech region.

 

Having said that with even greater data density you could read more data in a smaller amount of space (and so be slightly faster).

[Oaktech]

We are always going to be limited to ~15k given the speed of sound and the problems that breaking the speed of sound inside a hard drive.

 

HDD maybe the way for pure capacity but speed is going to have to be in SSD/other tech region.

 

Having said that with even greater data density you could read more data in a smaller amount of space (and so be slightly faster).

 

and on that subject, a little wanton destruction, because everybody likes that...

 

[mac_shinobi]

We are always going to be limited to ~15k given the speed of sound and the problems that breaking the speed of sound inside a hard drive.

 

HDD maybe the way for pure capacity but speed is going to have to be in SSD/other tech region.

 

Having said that with even greater data density you could read more data in a smaller amount of space (and so be slightly faster).

 

Dual read / write heads that are electronically synchronised ?

[Michael]

We are always going to be limited to ~15k given the speed of sound and the problems that breaking the speed of sound inside a hard drive.

 

HDD maybe the way for pure capacity but speed is going to have to be in SSD/other tech region.

 

Having said that with even greater data density you could read more data in a smaller amount of space (and so be slightly faster).

 

Exactly, the higher the density the faster read/writes are. As to how much in practice, it's difficult to say. I suppose there are many factors involved.

[Rydra]

The biggest problem breaking the 15k rpm barrier is imperfections in the discs that cause the disc to be imbalanced compared to the material it's made out of. Most motors can compensate for this for the minute differences, but at those speeds the stuff that does it just can't compensate quick enough.

[Arthur]

HAMR time!

[Arthur]

In related news, 2TB 2.5" HDDs are now possible (as of yesterday)...

 

www.wdc.com/en/products/products.aspx?id=640

 

I might be wrong, but given the dimensions of the 2TB My Passport, I think the drive inside must be 15mm's in height, so even when Western Digital release the bare drive separately it won't fit inside many laptops due to it being too fat.

[mac_shinobi]

I'm Just hoping that hard drive prices go down a lot soon and that 2tb drives will become cheap with higher capacity drives becoming the norm so I can at least make a home nas

[X-13]

Density is great... What about speed?

 

I think it could easily get to Mach-3. With the right engines of course.

[sonofsanta]

I think it could easily get to Mach-3. With the right engines of course.

 

So it would be the best access speeds a man can get?

[X-13]

So it would be the best access speeds a man can get?

 

Yup. It's also the closest save ever.

[sonofsanta]

Yup. It's also the closest save ever.

 

alright, you win, I can't top that!

[Theblacksheep]

Can I come back at lunch to get my 60TB of recovered data?